Topic: Another quick question

[geoff piper]

Sorry to bother you guys again but i had two more quick questions.

First, I was talking to a friend who is not a taper but he does sound work so he is familiar with some of the taping equipment. He brought up the idea of running mic>DA-P1 for the first few shows I'm doing over the summer. Then getting enough money together to buy a pre/ad such as a V2-mod. SBM or a mod.UA-5 or something to that effect. My question is would this work or would the DA-P1 overload with the loud music.
Second, If this does work, I would be looking to get some higher priced mics such as AKG 480 with the ck1 and ck3 caps or something else. Would you guys recomened this or should i stay with a lower priced mic such as a akg 391/3. After a lot of thought i decided I wanted switchable caps no matter what.
Thanks alot guys
Geoff

[creekfreak]

oade can do some mod's to the da-p1 that will keep it from overloading under loud SLP's, with the mod's it does a nice job as an all in one unit. Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.

[Brian Skalinder]

oade can do some mod's to the da-p1 that will keep it from overloading under loud SLP's, with the mod's it does a nice job as an all in one unit. Nothing fancy, but gets the job done.

Alternatively, you could get an external phantom power box like the PS-2 and just run line-in on the DA-P1:

480s > PS2 > DA-P1 line-in

And if that isn't enough gain, you could add a couple line transformers to the mix (but I don't think it would be necessary with the 480s):

480s > PS2 > line transformers > DA-P1

[creekfreak]

good point Brian, +t

[geoff piper]

Thanks guys for the info. Sorry to bother you all, but when i get an idea in my head then i like to get knowledge of it before i make a decision.

[Brian Skalinder]

Thanks guys for the info. Sorry to bother you all, but when i get an idea in my head then i like to get knowledge of it before i make a decision.

You're welcome.  Smart play - it always pays to make an informed decision.  Now stop apologizing.    Questions like this are exactly why this board exists and we're all here - to help each other out.

[Nick Culbreth]

i ran akg480/ck61 > ps-2 > d-100 a few times and was pretty pleased w/ my results.  the signal from the 480s was hot enough that i didn't have to worry about using any line transformers.  i have an o.a.r. tape sitting on my hd in shn using that setup if you'd like to get an idea of what it sounds like.  if you are interested drop me a pm here or email me at nculbreth@cinci.rr.com and i can upload it to you tomorrow if you'd like.

nick

[wboswell]

nmculbreth is exactly right.  You can run the 480s line in to the P1 if you have a power supply for them.  If you don't have a power supply, you'll want to run either the pad on the mic or the pad on the P1 if not both.  The more wide open (as close to 10 on the dial)you can run the P1, the better.  I ran this set up for a little while and it definately gets the job done.  Just be sure to run the pads!

[tim in jersey]

the only instance where you might need a line transformer is if you do an acoustic show from fairly far away. For electric shows you'll be good to go w/ a power supply>line in.

BTW, I suggest the Denecke PS-2 as was mentioned before. Sounds good and a single 9V will power it for at least 5 or 6 hours in my experience.